Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other Pan Am hospitality. He had had three breakfasts at the house on Washington's F Street which Pan Am maintains as its executives' headquarters. That house, said the Senator, is also "very modest," in contrast to T.W.A.'s "palace" in Arlington, Va. (a 20-room affair with eight bars, he said). He did not like to be critical of Pan Am, but he wished the committee would go and look at Pan Am's F Street place-"It has a toilet on the first floor that is always out of order . . . more than any other...
...headily perfumed world of fashion, whose journals are both arbiters and court reporters, has its own definition of news: the New Look. This time, for a change, it was really new, from round shoulders to sucked-in (or laced-in) waist to long skirt (see NATIONAL AFFAIR...
...business meeting will precede the speaker," Stanley G. Karson '48, chapter chairman, said last night, emphasizing that the affair was a public one to which all interested persons were invited...
Investigation of the missing royal jewels of the late Princess Hermine, widow of Germany's last Kaiser, was dropped as an internal German affair by the U.S. Army's C.I.D. yesterday as they released Fraulein Vera Herbst, reputed consort of Hermine's son, Prince Ferdinand...
...found no hidden gold. He did. He found the gold plates upon which the Book of Mormon was inscribed. . . . The symbols found on them were no more mystic than written French to a fourth-grade American schoolboy. Magic Spectacles which you mention [are] undoubtedly the Urim and Thummim, an affair which was worn on the person, much as a telephone operator's mouthpiece, and which is not to be confused with the seer-stone...